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Kavyanusagana Şrīpāla as wrote the prasasti of the Sahasralinga Lake of Jayasimha. The inscription was engraved by Nāgara Brāhmaṇa Pandita Vālaņa on Thursday the second of the bright half of the month of Asyina of the year V. S. 1208.
This inscription indicates that by V. S. 1208 -A. D. 1152 Kumārapāla was firmly established. In it he is represented as one who got his kingdom through the favour of Someşvara, one whose work of killing the enemies was accomplished by goddesses, and so one whose army was just a thing of play ( v. 18).
Like Așoka, Kumārapūla, after the bloody wars of the early part of his reign, appears to have turned his mind to non-violence towards animals. For, we find, in the D. K. that Hemachandra, after narrating his wars with Anna and Ballala, his marriage with Jalhanā and the safety and security in his kingdom (XX v. 1-2), describes Kumārapāla's efforts in spreading the doctrine of non-violence towards animals. A poor villager on an auspicious day was driving some goats to a slaughter house. Kumāra pāla accosted him and was very inuch affected by what he heard from him (v. 10 - 20). He proclaimed “Amári " or non - killing of animals ( v. 22 - 23). Thenceforth sacrifice of animals for religious purposes was stopped (v. 20). “Out of consideration for Kumārapāla's words sages like Dakshiņa Bhārgava sacrificed barley in their dārgha – satras (or great sacrifices )" (v. 30 ). Hunting was also stopped (31 - 34 ). +
+That this was the result of Hemachandra's teachings, we learn from H's own words in the prașasti of the Tripurusha-- Salākāpurushacharita.
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